Today's News

• Trust God Ministries will host a revival featuring guest speaker Rev. Charlie Fryson Jr. at the Open Door Church of the Lord Jesus Christ through Jan. 15 at 7:30 p.m. nightly.

• St. Joseph MB church will host a 100 Men in Black, Women in White service Feb. 6 at 6 p.m. with guest speaker, Rev. Herbert Thomas Sr. The event is sponsored by the Silver Star Lodge No. 61. Dinner will be served following the service.

The Gadsden County Sheriff’s Office will conduct driver’s license, DUI and vehicle inspection checkpoints in January at the following locations: I-10 at Quincy, Midway, Chattahoochee and Greensboro, Highway 90 East and West of Midway to Chattahoochee, Hw. 23 East and West to Greensboro and Havana, Hwy. 27 North and South of Havana, Hw. 65 North and South, Hwy.

Charlie and Liza Dilworth of Gretna, along with Andrew and Geraldine Kenon of St. John, Emmanuel Brown of St. Mary and the late Delores Cooper, are pleased to announce the marriage of their children, LaCarra Kerrell Dilworth and Carlos Jermaine Brown.

The bride is a 2003 graduate of James A. Shanks High School, and is employed as a correctional officer with the Leon County Sheriff's Office. She is the granddaughter of Eliese Williams of Gretna.

Gadsden County School District’s graduation rates have hit an all-time high, climbing to 64.2 percent, its highest mark since the state began reporting graduation rates.

The state released the rates last week, and figures showed that the county’s rate is up from last year’s 56.1 percent. The rate has steadily increased since the 2003-4 school year, when the rate was at 43.1 percent, except for a dip in 2005-6, when the rate dropped back to 43.9 percent. But the drop was temporary, and the rate climbed to 53.3 precent in 2006-7.

It wasn't important how any of the nine men on the sixth annual Hunters Helping Hunters event reached their degree of disability. The only thing that mattered was that the hunters enjoyed a weekend in the North Florida woods hunting deer and enjoying the great outdoors.

December 21 has always been special to me as that is the birth date of my daddy, Henry William Rollins Sr.

The Dec. 21, 1939 headline on the front page of the Times read, "May one unavoidable tragedy help us avoid more tragedies." A week before this article was printed, 7-year-old Eugene Blackburn was hit and killed after darting out in front of an oncoming car on King Street.

Margaret Bredsher can't explain why she started collecting angels. But they offer her a certain comfort level when she feels a little down from the pressures of life. Somehow, when she looks around her home and sees an angel in almost every corner, she said she feel's "God's protection."

Bredsher doesn't know exactly how many angels she owns. The number, she guessed, tops 400. While she has some on display throughout her Key Street home year round during Christmas, all them are on display.

Seventy-five-year-old Gadsden County resident Emily Rowan was the victim of robbery and battery on an elderly person inside the Winn-Dixie store on West Jefferson Street as she shopped for a greeting card 2 days before Christmas.

A 16-year-old juvenile was arrested at nearby Arbor Crest Apartments shortly after the incident where he was also charged with battery on a law enforcement officer.

Gadsden County Commissioner Sherrie Taylor will not be graduating from a voluntary county commissioner certification program with her class in June during the Florida Association of Counties annual conference.

Back in 1959, most people delivered babies at home. The only time a woman went to the hospital was when complications were expected. Otherwise, they had children at home surrounded by family and friends and the trusted community midwife.

Sometimes, laughed former midwife Eliza Smith as she sat in her Dodger Ball Park Road home recalling the nearly 30 years she delivered babies in Florida, Georgia and Alabama, there were so many people in the house she had to insist they go into the yard.